The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My ability to make everything about me.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2017 source ↗
I’m incredibly patient with a lot of stuff, but incredibly impatient with other things. I deplore the impatient side.
Control freakery in the kitchen.
My difficulty to forgive.
Too controlling about silly things like timings or not having toxic cleaning products in the house.
People who feed off of their misery. The whiners and complainers.
Obama. He is a man of integrity and nobody seems to have integrity these days.
Warm chocolate cake, a gorgeous fire, and Idris Elba. Also, world peace.
Joseph Fiennes, Sarah Perry, Helen Mirren, Clare Bailey Mosley, Vick Hope, Dolly Parton
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